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Carteret County, North Carolina

Carteret County, NC: non-irrigated cash rent $88 an acre (2026); land and buildings $2,231 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 37031. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Carteret County had no acres published in farms in the 2022 census. County averages here describe very little farmland; read them with care.

Non-irrigated cash rent in Carteret County stands at $88 per acre, down 3.8 percent from 2016 to 2026. Crop insurance history shows $41.7 million in indemnities over 1989-2025, closed crop years, with excess moisture and flood the largest cause at 39 percent. Heat and drought's share of indemnities has moved 13 percent, 13 percent, 21 percent, 23 percent across 1989-1999, 2000-2009, 2010-2019, and 2020-2025.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$88/ac

2026 county average
NC median $80

Land and buildings

$2,231/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
NC median $5,711

Rent as % of land value

3.41%

$76 dry rent ÷ $2,231 land and buildings, both 2022

Corn yield, median

—

fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$12.22

2016–2025, closed crop years
NC median $14.91

Farmland rented

—

suppressed by NASS

Cash rent

Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey; nothing is drawn across it.

Non-irrigated, 2026$88/ac

Change 2016 to 2026−3.8%nominal, $92 to $88

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$2,231/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$3,288/ac

Census 2017$4,536/ac

Change 2017 to 2022−50.8%−13.2% a year, nominal

Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20223.41%$76 ÷ $2,231

Corn yield

County corn yield— fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Crop insurance record

Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1989. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in. 2026, still open, is left out.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$12.22

Loss ratio, 2016–20250.77claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20250.88$41.7 million paid

Years claims exceeded premium4 of 17

Worst year2018ratio 5.12

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 39% · wind 23% · heat and drought 19%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.

D2 or worse for half the county, 2000–202545 of 1,357 weeks3% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks201113 weeks

Last five years, 2021–20253 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202673.5 °F1991–2020 normal 72.5 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.44 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September34.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 109% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.8 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms

Farmed no-till, 202280% of cropland35,122 ac

Cover crops, 2022under 1% of cropland129 ac

Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.

CRP enrolled, 202554 ac

CRP expiring FY2026–202846 ac

Cattle and calves, 2022392+11.7% since 2017

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value	Corn yield	Claims per $100
Carteret County	$88	$2,231	—	$12.22
Craven County	$93	$3,063	117.3	$20.66
Jones County	$91 2025	$3,602	—	$26.43
Onslow County	$109	$6,189	105.0	$34.47
Pamlico County	$99	$3,222	144.5	$10.49
Median next door	$99	$3,412	117.3	$23.55

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.

Cite this page

AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Carteret County, North Carolina. Figures as of 2026-09-20, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/north-carolina/carteret-county

Every figure is a county average from the sources named below. Ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms, in the same survey year for rent, within the state. Methods: how each figure is built. Downloads: all counties, CSV.

Sources, dates and arithmetic

"Figures as of" is the date this page's numbers last changed; it moves only when a figure on the page does. Source files and their retrieval dates are listed on the data page.

Rent: USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, county. Land value: Census of Agriculture, operators' estimate of land and buildings. Yield: NASS county corn yields, trend fitted here over every published year since 2008. Loss ratio: claims (indemnity) divided by total premium, USDA RMA Summary of Business, 1989 on, open crop year left out. Drought: U.S. Drought Monitor, weeks with half the county or more in D2 or worse. July lows: NOAA nClimDiv county monthly minimum temperature. A dash means the record does not carry the figure or the source withheld it; the reason is printed beside it.

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